Happy Tuesday, In my last Scrapbook Nerd order, I had purchased the new A/C Thickers Alphabet Alignment Guide Tool. This package comes with five different shaped/sized guides in a convenient storage package. In the past, I have used a ruler and/or placed Thickers on wax paper to lay out a title, but the ease of […]
Hello Everyone, A few weeks ago on the forum, there was a great discussion about how to use up packages of Thickers once the most used letters are gone. I wanted to try using some of mine up on cards, so set about to use up some old papers from 6×6 paper pads and […]
Hello there! I hope you all have enjoyed a LOVE filled week. This month i was lucky to have different collections to play with, but i think that overall the theme for this month’s reveal was love and simplicity. So let me give you a quick run-through all the projects: XOXO […]
Happy Valentine’s Day to you all! We hope that you all spent time with your loved ones today Since today is all about love, i set to create a project using paper rosettes. I was inspired by the embellishments from Crate Paper’s Heart Day collection, to use rosettes in a layout. So […]
This week I am sharing the layouts I created using Photo Plays – Cooper & Friends Collection. This collection has fun papers that reflect life with a furry 4 legged family member. My furry buddy is Nevada, we adopted her about 10 years ago from the Humane Society, and she is a constant companion in pretty […]
Photo Play – Cooper & Friends Collection I enjoyed pulling out my silly dog photo’s and using the Cooper & Friends collection to document some of Nevada’s antic’s. Our little furry girl is a big part of our family and she has her share of photo’s to be scrapbooked! These papers are the perfect addition […]
Welcome back everyone, I’ve been art journaling for a few years now and I still feel like I’m finding my style. Some pages are full of texture and colour, others have more white space and I only use paint. Our art journals can be anything we want them to be and that means anything goes. […]
Hello everyone, I sometimes forget how nice heat embossing looks and the little jars sit in a drawer and don’t get used. The sentiment in the stamp set that I used for this weeks card made me want to emboss the heart stamp in gold and I love the way it turned out. I think I […]
Hello everyone. It’s the end of another Design Team week, here, on Scrapbook Nerd, and I’m here to share my projects for this month. I was working with the very colourful Simple Stories Life in Color collection. This collection has been out for a few months now, but every time I look at it I […]
Hello everyone! Welcome to another Scrapbook Nerd Academy with Scrapbook Nerd. For any of you out there who have seen my Instagram account, or those who know me personally, you know that I am completely addicted to my Heidi Swapp Lightbox! I love to change it up and leave different messages, or to celebrate […]
Hello all, It’s time for some more mixed media inspiration and as promised I am using the papers I made in the MMM post two weeks ago. If you want to check out that post you can click right here. I get so much enjoyment out of creating art journal pages, it’s so relaxing and I […]
Welcome! Have you ever created a project from leftovers? The card I’m sharing today started with things I had sitting on my desk from other projects that didn’t make the cut then but were still really great for other projects. I had two pieces of paper, on one I had stamped an image on some […]
This week I had the pleasure of working with the Pink Paislee – Paige Evans – “Take Me Away” Collection. I especially liked the ombre water-colour like papers and found them to make great backgrounds. The chipboard stickers had a lot of variety and some gold – so pretty and great for adding a little […]
Happy New Year! For my 1st post for 2017 I have found myself a different way to use photo Overlays. Now normally you would use a photo overlay on top of your photo …..well I used it behind my photo and I am quite pleased with the result. These 2 photo’s show you how a […]
Hello, everyone! Hope you have all survived the weather/storms of the last week. It’s been fun to watch so many of you posting projects from the “Jumpstart Your Creativity” online crop from last weekend. My intention this week was to use my Cameo Silhouette more, and to leave more white space on my layouts. Here […]
Hello Everyone, I hope you enjoyed a wonderful holiday season. We are all now getting back into the swing of our regular routines, but I wanted to take time to share the December Daily album I recently finished. I have done this project for several years and am always pleased to have done it. I […]
Welcome friends, I wanted to share the process of making some background papers with you this week. I’m going to use & share the projects I create with these homemade papers upcoming posts. Making your own backgrounds can work for a lot of your projects including, collage, cardmaking and scrapbook layouts. I started with some […]
Happy Sunday everyone, It’s Joy here with another card share and today’s share uses distress inks to create a blended background. Whenever I use distress ink in this way I always like the results and, I like to use some water for that splatter effect you see. I used the same distress ink, Salty Ocean, […]
Hello there! First of all let me wish you all a Happy New Year! May 2017 be filled with love, happiness, health, and lots of crafty time! For this month’s projects, I chose to work with different techniques, media, and collections. All the pretty patterned papers, and cut files are what inspired […]
Hello there! Happy New Year to you all! May 2017 be filled with lots of health, love, happiness, and crafting time, of course! I am back with a new entry for the Silhouette Savvy Series. In a previous entry (click here to be taken to the entry) i showed you how to use the […]
Welcome to another first for 2017, today is the first Mixed Media on Monday post of the year. I’ve been a bit void of my usual creative mojo, so getting back into a regular schedule after the holiday’s is good. Do you feel the same after the holiday’s? I went into this page with two […]
Hello friends and welcome back, You might not know it but I love cute dog stamps… well you might know it if you’ve been following the SCS posts. Before the holiday break I posted a holiday card (see post here) using the same stamp Happy Howl-iday’s from Avery Elle that I used for today’s […]
Well, it’s the end of the first week on 2017! How has your week been? Has it been a creative one? It has been for me. I have found my creative sweet spot right now and have been setting aside some time each day to do something creative. Now, if I can just keep that […]
Hello everyone! Welcome to 2017 and our first Scrapbook Nerd Academy of this brand new year! We are hoping that this year brings you lots of creative inspiration and lots of time to play. We also hope that our Tuesday Tutorials can play a part in inspiring you to get creative! During some of my […]
The papers are fun and I love the rich tones of blue, red and brown. The sticker pages have 3 types of alpha’s, great borders , word titles and super cute bundled up kids so I got busy and created quite a few winter/christmas layouts/ pocket pages. Some outdoor and some indoor what a versatile […]
Good morning Nerds! I can’t believe it’s June already…end of the school year…beginning of the good summer weather and of course Father’s Day! I thought I would pay tribute to some of the men in my life by scrapping them! Love how perfect the Journey line from Crate is for some more manly projects!! Here’s […]
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Hola Nerds, So it’s Monday-ish and we have another video to share with you in the Templates & Mists series. In this we use ink, paint and other items to stretch the use of our templates. Enjoy! and remember our NO TAX event is still on and you save an additional 10% on all […]
Last weekend we were in London as the sponsor of a fund-raising crop at the Salvation Army. It was a huge success for the organizers. Great company, lots of laughs, great food, and the creativity was flowing. In three weeks time we will be heading in the opposite direction to a fund-raising crop in Peterborough. […]
Hey there crafty people, I can’t believe March is here already, can you? The Nerds were is London over the weekend at a crop, we met some new friends and caught up with ones we haven’t seen in a while. It was so much fun! Such a great group of ladies and some yummy food […]
